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545 - Biographical or Historical Data (R)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - Concise
2007

Biographical information about an individual or historical information about an institution or event used as the main entry for the item being cataloged. When a distinction between levels of detail is required, a brief summary is given in subfield $a and a fuller annotation is given in subfield $b.

Indicators
First - Type of data
# - No information provided
0 - Biographical sketch
1 - Administrative history
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined
Subfield Codes
$a - Biographical or historical data (NR)
$b - Expansion (NR)
$u - Uniform Resource Identifier (R)
$6 - Linkage (NR)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
Examples
545 ##$aActive from March 15, 1905 until April 17, 1989.
545 0#$aBorn Kingston, N.Y., April 4, 1856; worked at J.J. Bufford's Lith. in Boston, 1890-1895.
545 ##$aAuthor and reformer. Born Harriet Elizabeth Beecher. Married (1836) Calvin Ellis Stowe (1802-1886).
545 ##$aThe Faribault State School and Hospital provided care, treatment, training, and a variety of other services to mentally retarded individuals and their families. It was operated by the State of Minnesota from 1879 to 1998 under different administrative structures and with different names. A more detailed history of the Hospital may be found at$uhttp://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/80881.html

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